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The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction
THIS NEW COLLECTION of short stories by Japanese writers, all set in Tokyo, opens with a monster on a killing spree aboard Tokyo's train system as it loops twice around the city center. Though the stories that follow are less fantastical, the city's train system is one of the consistent concrete markers of Tokyo that runs throughout the collection.
In his introduction, Michael Emmerich (see WLT, May 2010, 15-17) describes the collection as drawing what may be a more conceptual than physical vision...